Yeah… Finally got around to reading Hamlet and “it’s just a bunch of cliches”
But my main reservation with this adaptation is not which artistic choices are being made or the direction they decide to take things or even the difficulties in adapting the story (actually argued the other side of all this in FAVOR of the latest Dune) - and more that the source material was (likely) chosen simply for being a rich vein of dork-culture ore, one intended to be quickly and easily processed into a homogenized block of monetized consumer content…
The end result, once stripped of all pedigree and drained of any residial artistic expression, left as little more than a thumbnail to be scrolled past and forgotten alongside other milquetoast sci-fi projects like Travelers, or Continuum, Solo, etc…
An adaptation with nothing to say; “art” as a meaningless multimedia content experience
I genuinely don’t know enough about the project to know if that tracks. As with anything, I’m willing to give it the benefit of the doubt until it’s an actual thing and see if they figured out something that doesn’t seem obvious.
I’m just… you know, also ready for it to suck for all those reasons, too.
Salient points, all.
Yeah… Finally got around to reading Hamlet and “it’s just a bunch of cliches”
But my main reservation with this adaptation is not which artistic choices are being made or the direction they decide to take things or even the difficulties in adapting the story (actually argued the other side of all this in FAVOR of the latest Dune) - and more that the source material was (likely) chosen simply for being a rich vein of dork-culture ore, one intended to be quickly and easily processed into a homogenized block of monetized consumer content…
The end result, once stripped of all pedigree and drained of any residial artistic expression, left as little more than a thumbnail to be scrolled past and forgotten alongside other milquetoast sci-fi projects like Travelers, or Continuum, Solo, etc…
An adaptation with nothing to say; “art” as a meaningless multimedia content experience
I genuinely don’t know enough about the project to know if that tracks. As with anything, I’m willing to give it the benefit of the doubt until it’s an actual thing and see if they figured out something that doesn’t seem obvious.
I’m just… you know, also ready for it to suck for all those reasons, too.